House-moving truck



(No Model.) A

A. G, 'KENT'. HOUSE MOVING THINK.

.N0.469,148. Patented Feb. 16", 1892.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FEICE.

ALEXANDER G. KENT, OF SOLON, IOXVA.

HOUSE-MOVING TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,148, datedFebruary 16, 1892.

Application tiled September 9. 1391. Serial No. 405.200. (No model.) I

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER G. KENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Solon, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin H ouse-lvloving'lrucks 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consistsin a new and improved house-moving truck which is especially designed to be used in movinghouses from one place to another; and this inventio11,in which are embodied many new and valuable features, will be hereinafter fully described and claimed. f

Referring t0 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my new and improved house-moving truck. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on a line with the brake-shoe and truck. Fig. 4 illustrates in detail the adjustable steering-gage.

Referring to the several parts by their designating-numerals, 1 1 indicate the forward trucks, and 2 2arthe rear trucks, of my housemoving apparatus. The forward trucks l and 1 are connected together by the cap-piece 3, the rear end of which is firmly bolted upon the dErame of the truck 1, while its outer end is pivotally secured by a king-bolt4 upon the front cross-beam of the front truck 1. The truck 1 is provided with a tongue 5, to which the horses may be attached and by means of which the front truck can be turned, turning on its king-bolt to assist in turning the apparatus. The rear trucks 2 and 2 are connected by the cap-piece 6, the rear end of which is bolted upon the frame of the rear truc 2, while its forward end is pivotally secured by a king-bolt7 upon the front cross-beam of the truck-frame 2. 2extends forward a tongue 8, from the free end of which projects a straight iron pin 9.

10 in the accompanying drawings represents a beam which connects the front and rear pairs of trucks and which may be the sill of the house which is being moved, the connecting cap-pieces 3 and 6 of the trucks being centrally and pivotally secured beneath the ends of the beam 10.

From the front of the truck 11 l1 indicate the L-shaped supporting-arms of my new and improved gage, the long up per ends of which are provided with apertures 11"L to adapt them to be secured by a trans.- verse bolt to the sides of a sill between the pairs of trucks j ust back of the forward trucks. The short lower ends of the supporting-arms are reduced and shouldered at 12 at their free ends to adapt them-to fit through any of the series of slots 13, formed in the lower part of a vcurved rack 13, and nuts la are screwed on the threaded ends 12 of the arms to hold the curved rack in position. lt will be seen that by this construction the supporting-arms 1l can be moved nearertogether or farther apart by placing their reduced ends 12 through the proper slots 13a of the rack, and the device can thus i be made to fit any-sized sill from four to eighteen inches thick. The iron pin 9, which projects from the frontl end ,of the tongue 8, fits in the notches of the curved rack 13, and it will be seen that the tongue S can be turned to eitherside to turn the truck 2 on its pivotal bolt, and that it will be held at the point to which it is adjusted by its end pin 9, engaging with the rack 13. The front end of the tongue 8 is provided with the short chains 15, having the hand-rings 16 at their free ends for convenience in lifting the end of the tongue in moving it from either side.

ln each of the truck-frames 1 1fL 2 2a are secured on a stout metal transverse shaft 17 two wide rollers 18, the width of the rollers being usually greater than their diameter. Each Wheel-shaft 17 is preferably mounted at its center and both ends in a Babbittmetal bearing-box 19, each hollow bearing-box bcing packed with Waste and oil, by which means the bearings are rendered self-oiling. The rear trucks of each pair may be connected to their respective cap-pieces 3,'6 by connecting braces 20, arranged as shown.

Over each wheel of each rear truck of the front and rear pairs of trucks is mounted transversely a metal bar 2l, to the under side of which is bolted a wooden brake-shoe 22, the under side of which is curved at 22L to conform to the curvature of the wheel immediately below it, these curved surfaces being lined with iron 23.

24 indicates bolts, which pass up through the timbers of the truclcl frames, with their.

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upper ends passing loosely through apertures;

be descended by my trucks when moving a house that by screwing down the heavy hand# nuts 26 the brakeshoes-22 'Will bepressed iirmly` down upon the rear Wheels ofthe sev eral pairs of trucks, and* astWo offtheappai ratus shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are employed under la house'it' will bese'en thateigh-t.` of these@ po werful' brakes willV be call'edfinto play,-

andI vfhtwefound by'experience.th-atthey will hold` the trucks :While-descen dfiingthe :heaviest grade W'it'hai house mounted:A up'onfthemg lVhen'levelgroundisagainfreachedgithe h`and-l nutsfareunsc'rewed, @when 'fth'e"coiledf springs* 25 Willlrai'se the brakes-Fand "-release1the-rolle ers `from their Epressu re: f

joined together bya"tu rnlbtickle-'29, thatfthefl linefofre'ach' may-b'e'lengthened or shortened.' Thefro'dfor sect'ionf 28' isf-pivotal-lyconnected rod' 27 isfb'entfatj right anglesitoiformthe hoo'kf thestaple '30'(Wh'en'the front rolleris to beheld" at any-*determined angle)`or byfl the apertures Y 31, provided in the'plate-32,when'theirollersf other."

Havingthus described my inventionfwhat' `I claim, and desire'to secureby Letters Pat- `ent,"is"- 1. In a housemoving truck, substantially as described, the combination, with a truckframe and its supporting-roller, of the metal :bar 21, having, the v apertures 21a, the brake- `"shoes'bolted'to the'under side of said bars,

the bolts 24, passing up through the apertures 21 and havinggtheir upper ends threaded, the coiled springs25, encircling the bolts 24 beneath the bars 21, and the hand nuts 26, Jnounted-on the thread'edfendsfof thebolts, substantially as specied.

2. Thebmbination, with the beam 10, the

' curvilinear rack 13, having the series of slots rear'trucandyhavingra"pinatlitsfre endy adapted te engage the frack 13, substantially as set"forth.

3'.l Thelpivotedireai@ -tr-u'ck 2 andi thetong-ue i l'ai-ms, substantially as and for the p'urpos'eseifA forth.AV ,l

Inftesti mon yfvv'hereof I afiiX- my 'signat re" in'e presence offtwo'witnesses'r v ALEXANDER G. KEN-T.

Vitnesses'zf Ll M? LAWYER,

J AcoB H. FISHER. 

